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Funded! This project successfully raised its funding goal on August 18, 2012.

Development Update - 10/11/12

Update #6 · Oct 11, 2012 · 3 comments

Here's the latest with the front end team --

+ finished wireframes and mockups.

+ developing the beta version of the app.

+ working on finding the best platform from which to deliver the beta version to testers, to make it easy to install and to send feedback back to us

+ creating the graphics, icons and imagery that will be used within the app.
The backend team is doing the heavy lifting with transit data and OpenTripPlanner --

+ developing the geographic router, which figures out which metropolitan area the user is in, so we can plan a trip using the local transit data.

+ setting up routing engine coverage map.

+ tracking down additional data and adding it to transitdata.openplans.org.

We’ve still got lots of work ahead of us, but we're excited about the progress that’s been made. In particular, some of the nifty new UI ideas that we’ve come up with along the way.... Stay tuned for more details soon.

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      Creator Raiyyan Khan on October 12, 2012

      If you guys are still looking into distribution platforms, check out Zeusmos, at http://zeusmos.com. It's an awesome method for beta testing. The dev who made it recently made major upgrades to it, it's even more awesome now.

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      Creator drewish on October 11, 2012

      Give TestFlight a look, it's great for distributing betas.

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      Creator Joel Longtine on October 11, 2012

      I'm looking forward to seeing where you guys go with this, and to get my hands on the actual app! Good luck!

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